Beginning in August of 2011, my wife, Elaine, our children, Rachel and Samuel, and I lived in the Holy Land for a year while I taught at the Brigham Young University–Jerusalem Center. Experiencing that land and being able to teach the Bible in many of the very places where its events took place was a...
A few months into the summer of my study at the BYU Jerusalem Center, I went with a few friends to visit the Artist’s Colony just outside one of the gates of the old city. We’d heard reports that there wasn’t much to see there, but it was a gorgeous day and the park behind...
I had the privilege of attending the Jerusalem Center during the winter semester of 2011. During our trip to Egypt, we experienced the protection and miraculous tender mercies of the Lord. For the most part, our week in Egypt went very smoothly and according to plan- seeing the pyramids, the Karnak temple, Valley of the...
